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1. Or 4897

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 4897
Title:
Collection of Arabic works from the Senegambian region II
Scope & Content:
A bound volume of around 20 works followed by single pages and fragments of larger works and some Fāwāʾid and ritual practices, bought from Sir Henry Rawlinson in 1895 and probably bound shortly after acquisition. Complete works mainly on fiqh, tawḥīd, hadith and Sufism, with several works by Muḥ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic and Soninke
Date Range:
Mid 19th century
Extent:
307 ff

2. Or 4897, ff 119r-168v

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 4897, ff 119r-168v
Title:
Iʿlam anna wajadnā min anwāʿ al-kufr al-mujammiʿ ʿalayhā faḍlan ʿan al-mukhtalif fīhi fī al-ṭalaba
Scope & Content:
A work on fiqh by Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad Ibn ʿUmar. Crossings out and marks on f130v-131r. Annotations and translations in Soninke f139r-141r and 152r-169v. Incomplete work.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic and Soninke
Date Range:
Mid 19th century
Extent:
50 ff

3. Or 4897, ff 179r-196v

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 4897, ff 179r-196v
Title:
Scope & Content:
Unidentified section of religious work
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic and Soninke
Date Range:
Mid 19th century
Extent:
18 ff

4. Or 6473

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 6473
Title:
Collection of Arabic works from the Senegambian region I
Scope & Content:
A volume of 34 separate works from West Africa bound together by the BL in 1905 after acquisition in 1903 from a Julius Bertram. Some watermarks bear a date of 1819. Most works concern fiqh, Islamic law and tawḥīd and were basic instructional texts for use in Islamic education. Most of the later ...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic and Soninke
Date Range:
Early 19th century
Extent:
286 ff

5. Or 6473, f 283r-283v

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 6473, f 283r-283v
Title:
Scope & Content:
Fragment of praise work for Muḥammad
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic and Soninke
Date Range:
Early 19th century
Extent:
1 f

6. Or 6473, ff 198r-226v

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 6473, ff 198r-226v
Title:
العقيدة الوسطى al-ʿAqīdah al-Wusṭá
Scope & Content:
A section from the "middle creed" of Muḥammad Ibn Yūsuf al-Sanūsī (1435/6-1490), a work on belief (tawḥīd). Sanūsī wrote a small, middle and large creed to suit different levels of advancement in study. Gloss in Soninke ʿajamī. The colophon states that the owner is al-Ḥajj Kasama (Gasama) and his...
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic and Soninke
Date Range:
Early 19th century
Extent:
31 ff

7. Or 6473, ff 254r-256v

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 6473, ff 254r-256v
Title:
Kitāb Muḥammad Kuntī
Scope & Content:
A poem outlining the duties of a Muslim and seemingly philosophical commentary on life. The copyist states in the colophon that "I wrote [out] the book for myself and for anyone who is not corrupted (?)." He names the book "the book of Muḥammad Kuntī", perhaps the son of Sīdī al-Mukhtār al-Kuntī
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic and Soninke
Date Range:
Early 19th century
Extent:
3 ff

8. Or 6473, ff 261r-262v

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 6473, ff 261r-262v
Title:
Section from the Risālat Abī Zayd al-Qayrawānī (922-996)
Scope & Content:
Two non-sequenced folios from a copy of the Risāla of Tunisian Maliki fiqh specialist Abī Zayd al-Qayrawānī (922-996). The pages concern preparing a body for burial. Gloss in ʿajamī language.
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic and Soninke
Date Range:
Early 19th century
Extent:
2 ff

9. Or 6473, ff 285r-286r

Reference (shelfmark):
Or 6473, ff 285r-286r
Title:
Scope & Content:
A summary of the main points from Muḥammad Ibn Yūsuf al-Sanūsī (1435/6-1490)'s creed, Umm al-Barāhīn
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic and Soninke
Date Range:
Early 19th century
Extent:
2 ff

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